JPH03182285A - Toy animal with flexible leg and weighted foot - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an animal toy which can be stabilized without loving when placed on a horizontal surface of a table surface or a floor by providing a sufficient columnar strength to support the animal toy or resist to falling as its feet are placed on the horizontal surface, and when an additive attachment is placed on the horizontal surface. CONSTITUTION: A foot 22 is formed denser than a part of a stuffed part of a hind leg 18, and the hind leg 18 is formed denser than the other stuffed parts of a dinosaur toy 10. The hind legs 18 provide a thin and long appearance to the dinosaur toy 10, the hind legs 18 and a large tail 20 are provided in such a way that each foot 22 is placed on a horizontal surface such as a surface 36, and that the tail 20 is placed on the horizontal surface to support the dinosaur toy 10, and provide sufficient columnar strength to resist falling when the dinosaur toy 10 is placed on the horizontal surface.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Field of the Invention The present invention relates to stuffed animals (stuffed animals).
ted animal) with flexible legs and weighted feet.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Animal toys, such as stuffed animals, provide countless hours of fun to countless children.

Young children and their parents are drawn to animal toys that have strange shapes or that seem fun to touch.

It's a constant challenge for toy designers to develop new animal toys that young children and their parents will love. The present invention addresses such challenges.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an animal toy that appears inherently unstable when placed on a horizontal surface such as a table top or floor; To provide an animal toy that tends to remain stationary and stable when pushed. Additionally, animal toys respond in a way that feels fun to touch.

Basically, an animal toy includes a body and a plurality of appendages extending downwardly from the body. In addition, animal toys have other appendages extending from the body, such as tails, eyes,
It can have a head-like structure with ears, whiskers, or other features.

The appendages extending downward from the body include two or more disproportionately flexible long legs that give the animal toy a lanky appearance, and at least one additional appendage that becomes a tail or another leg. It can be equipped with appropriate attachments. Each leg is pad-like and ends with a foot that is larger in cross-section compared to the rest of the leg.

The six feet are weighted to allow the legs with the feet to hang downward when the animal toy is held on the underlying surface. Although the disproportionately long flexible legs give the animal toy the long appearance of a chick, if the animal toy is placed on a horizontal surface such as a table top or floor, and the six legs rest on said horizontal surface, When additional downwardly extending appendages rest on said horizontal plane, said legs and other appendages, or other appendages, provide sufficient columnar support to support the animal toy and to resist tipping over. strength (column strength)
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If the animal toy is provided with two such legs, the additional downwardly extending appendage may also be a tail. Therefore, the animal toy stands on its two legs and leans on its tail. It can represent a seagull. The animal toy can also represent a kangal squirrel, a dinosaur, or some other four-legged, long-tailed animal standing on its hind legs and leaning on its tail.

Alternatively, if an animal toy has four legs, then it can represent any of the myriad types of four-legged animals that stand on those four legs. It is conceivable that an animal toy could represent an insect if it had six legs.
If it has eight legs, it can represent a beak or an octopus.

In most instances, the flexible legs of the animal toy tend to be disproportionately long for the body of the animal toy, especially when compared to the true shape of any real animal represented on the animal toy. It is in. Therefore, animal toys appear to be inherently unstable, especially when standing on their disproportionately long and flexible legs. However, animal toys can represent fantasy animals such as unicorns rather than any real animals.

Preferably, the hexapods are made of polyethylene or other polymers.
(lymeric) weighted by a mass of particulate material, such as a mass of beads or a mass of silica particles. In addition, each leg has a textile cover, and six feet have bags in the textile covers of the legs with identification, and the bags in six feet hold a mass that gives weight to the feet. It is preferable to do so.

Further, as a preferred feature, the body parts and the leg parts except the feet are padded, so that the feet are denser than the padded parts of the legs, and the padded parts of the legs are padded. It will be denser than the stuffed part of the body.

These objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description of one or the other embodiments of the invention.

Two of the countless possible embodiments of the invention are shown in the drawings and described below. It goes without saying that these are only typical and that the invention is not limited to the illustrated embodiments.

As shown in FIG. 1, the present invention is a dinosaur toy lO
can be embodied in This dinosaur toy 10 has a strange appearance.

Dinosaur toy lO has a soft and well-shaped body 1
2, a soft, well-shaped head 14 with eyes and other features extending forward from the body 12, two front legs 16 extending forward from the body 12, and two front legs 16 extending downward from the body 12. It has two hind legs 18 and a large tail 20 extending backward and downward from the body 12.

The hind legs 18 are disproportionately long as well as flexible in order to give the toy dinosaur 10 a lanky appearance and to make the toy dinosaur 10 responsive to the touch. Each hind leg 18 has a foot 22, with a leg at its end. The identification 22 is pad-like and is larger in cross-section compared to other parts of such rear leg 18.

The body, head, legs and tail of dinosaur toy 10 are as follows:
It is covered (with the exception of external features such as eyes) with a woven and stretchable fabric cover 24, such as a woven nylon cover that can be brightly colored. The extendable cover 24 allows the dinosaur toy 10 to assume various comical or bizarre poses. All parts of the body, head, legs and tail of the dinosaur toy IO are so covered, provided that the legs 22 and the tip of the tail 20 are weighted in the manner described below. Except for the tip of the bastard, it is stuffed with pillow stuffing material 26.

Qualofil(TM) pillow stuffing material is manufactured by E.
It is a synthetic, fluffy, tough material commercially available from I. Dupont Nemours & Company and is preferred.

By comparison, the other padded parts of the dinosaur toy are less tightly padded, while the hind legs 18 are more tightly padded.

As shown in FIG. 2, the hexapod 22 includes a bag 30 filled with a mass 32 of translucent polyethylene beads, silica pellets, or other particulate material. I'm here. This mass 32 adds weight to such a leg 22.

The bag 30 is made of heat-sealable polymer.
c) Made from film and heat sealed to close the bag 30 after it has been filled. A bag 30 can be sewn into such a foot 22.

When the dinosaur toy 10 is held on an underlying surface, such as the horizontal surface 36 shown fragmentarily in FIG.
The hind legs 18 with 2 are made to hang downward (dang
le), each ¥22 is weighted by such a mass 32 held in the bag 30. The tip of the tail 20 can be weighted by such a bag (not shown) sewn to the tip of the tail 20, and such a mass (not shown) held in the tip. .

By comparison, the legs 22 (and the tips of the tails 20, if weighted in the manner described above) are denser than the padded portions of the hind legs 18;
And the hind legs 18 are denser than the other padded parts of the dinosaur toy 10.

Although the hind legs 18 give the dinosaur toy 10 a lanky appearance, the hind legs 18 and the large tail 20 (
Whether or not the weight can be added using the above method, when the dinosaur toy 10 is placed on a horizontal surface such as the horizontal surface 36, the 6 legs 22 are resting on the horizontal surface and the tail 20 is on the horizontal surface. Sufficient column strength to support the dinosaur toy 10 while leaning on it and to resist tipping over.
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As shown in FIG. 3, the present invention provides a cat toy 40.
may be embodied in Cat toy 40 also has a strange appearance.

Cat toy 40 has a soft and well-shaped body 4
2, and a soft-looking head 4 extending forward from the body 42 and having eyes, ears, whiskers, and other features.
4, and two front legs 4 extending downward from the body 42.
6, and a long tail 50 extending rearward from the body 42 and curling in any direction.

The front legs 46 and rear legs 48 are disproportionately long to give the cat toy 40 a lanky appearance and to be flexible so that the cat toy 40 is responsive to touch. Each front leg 46 has a foot 52 which is terminated by a hand. The sedation 52 is like a butt and is larger in cross-section when compared to the rest of the foreleg 46. Similarly, each hind leg 48 has a foot 54 that is similar to the foot 52 of each front leg 46 and is at the end.

The body 42, head 44, front legs 46, hind legs 48, and tail 40 (excluding external features such as eyes, ears, and whiskers) are fabric covers similar to the fabric cover 24 used in the dinosaur toy 10. covered with.

All parts of the body 42, head 44, front legs 46 excluding feet 52, hind legs 48 excluding feet 54, and tail 50 covered as described above are covered with pillows used in the dinosaur toy 10. It is filled with materials similar to those used for stuffing.

In comparison, the front and hind legs of Neko no Mochiya 40 are
It is packed more tightly, whereas the other stuffed parts of the cat mochi and 40 are not packed as tightly.

The restraints 52 and 54 are similar to the feet 22 of the dinosaur toy 10 (except perhaps for the details of their external shape) and are held by a bag (not shown) similar to the bag 30 described above. It is similarly weighted by a mass of polyethylene beads (not shown).

When the cat toy 40 is held on an underlying surface, such as the horizontal surface 56 shown in fragmentary view in FIG. The six feet 52 of 40 are weighted as described above.

By comparison, the legs 52 are more densely padded than the padded portions of the front and rear legs of the cat toy 40, and the legs are denser than the other padded portions of the cat toy 40.

The front and rear legs give the cat toy 40 a lanky appearance, but when the cat toy 40 is placed on a horizontal surface such as the horizontal surface 56, the six feet 54 rest on the horizontal surface and the six feet 52 rest on the horizontal surface. In a state of leaning on
The front and rear legs have sufficient cylindrical strength to support the cat toy 40 and resist it from tipping over.

When the cat toy 40 is standing with its front and rear legs resting on a horizontal surface, it can be tilted forward, backward, or sideways (against gravity) without falling over. Cat toy 40 can assume other comical or bizarre poses. If this cat toy 4
If 0 is dropped from a suitable height onto a horizontal surface, the cat toy 40 will attempt to land on its front and rear legs, just as a live cat would.

Various modifications may be made to any of the animal toys shown and described herein without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a toy dinosaur standing with its hind legs on a horizontal surface, leaning on its tail; Figure 2 is a fragmentary cross-section of an example of the hind legs of the toy dinosaur in Figure 1. Figure 3 is a perspective view of a cat toy that stands on its four legs on a horizontal surface. 10...Dinosaur toy, 12.42...Body,
14.44 Head, 16.46... Front legs, 18.48
・hind legs, 20. 50... tail, 22.52...
Feet, 24... Cover, 26... Stuffing material, 30.
...Bag, 32...Lump, 36.56...Horizontal surface, 40...Cat toy.

Claims (14)

[Claims] (1) An animal toy comprising a body and a plurality of appendages extending downwardly from the body, the appendages comprising at least two disproportionately long and soft legs giving the animal toy a lanky appearance; , said appendage comprises at least one additional appendage, each leg having a pad-like foot that is larger in cross-section compared to the rest of said leg, said foot being at its end. , each foot is weighted to dangle downwardly when the animal toy is held by the body on a surface such as the base, and the appendage is , having sufficient cylindrical strength to support the animal toy and resist toppling when the animal toy is placed on a horizontal surface, each foot rests on said horizontal surface, and additional appendages rest on said horizontal surface. An animal toy like that. 2. The animal toy of claim 1, comprising two legs and one additional appendage serving as a tail. 3. The animal toy of claim 2, wherein each foot is weighted by a mass of particulate material. 4. The animal toy of claim 3, wherein the mass of particulate material comprises a mass of polymeric beads. (5) each leg has a textile cover, each leg has a bag in the textile cover of the foot and is weighted by a mass of particulate material held by the bag in the foot; 3. The animal toy according to claim 2, wherein the animal toy is provided with: (6) The body part and the leg part except the foot are padded, so that the foot is denser than the padded part of the leg, and the padded part of the leg is padded. 6. The animal toy of claim 5, wherein the padding is denser than the padded portion of the body. 7. The animal toy of claim 6, wherein the mass of particulate material comprises a mass of polymeric beads. (8) an animal toy comprising a body and a plurality of disproportionately long and soft legs, the legs extending downwardly from the body to give the animal toy a lanky appearance; When the animal toy is held by the body, the foot is at the end with a pad-like foot that is larger in cross section compared to the other parts of the leg, and each foot is on the underlying surface; The legs with paws are weighted to hang downwardly, the legs holding the animal toy when the animal toy is placed on a horizontal surface and each foot rests on the horizontal surface. An animal toy that has sufficient cylindrical strength to support and resist tipping over. (9) The animal toy according to claim 8, comprising four legs. 10. The animal toy of claim 9, wherein each foot is weighted with a mass of particulate material. 11. The animal toy of claim 10, wherein the mass of particulate material comprises a mass of polymeric beads. (12) Each leg has a textile covering, each foot has a bag in the textile covering of the foot and is weighted by a mass of particulate material held by the bag in the foot. The animal toy according to claim 9, which is attached to the animal toy. (13) The body part and the leg part except the foot are padded, so that the foot is denser than the leg, and the padded part of the leg is the body part. 13. The animal toy of claim 12, wherein the stuffing is denser than the stuffed portion of the animal toy. 14. The animal toy of claim 13, wherein the mass of particulate material comprises a mass of polymeric beads.